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- verb archaic Second-person singular past tense of to
know
Etymologies
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Examples
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I knewest I should never have allowed thee to be raised by elves, but thy mother Frigga was never around.
Robert Brenner: A Thor Subject Robert Brenner 2011
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I knewest I should never have allowed thee to be raised by elves, but thy mother Frigga was never around.
Robert Brenner: A Thor Subject Robert Brenner 2011
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Jesus answered and said unto her, ‘If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.’
WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL GILBERT MORRIS 2010
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When she found that thou knewest of her case, she plotted evil against thee, for she loveth thee not wholly.
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Thine was a life most miserable, though thou didst pretend 'twas otherwise; well thou knewest how guilty thy marriage was, and my mother knew she had a villain for husband.
Electra 2008
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And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
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Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
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Messiah and the Faith which is no liar, I thought not thou knewest of my sadness!
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Thine was a life most miserable, though thou didst pretend 'twas otherwise; well thou knewest how guilty thy marriage was, and my mother knew she had a villain for husband.
Electra 2008
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“If thou knewest aught of medicine,” answered El Hakim,
The Talisman 2008
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